sshd break-in attempt

[Enrique Ayesta Perojo]

El Martes, 2 de Enero de 2007 14:12, Nathan Vidican escribió:
> In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for hundreds
> of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make
> sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts
> are made within a minute's time? Must I use an external wrapper to
> accomplish this, or can it be done with options to sshd on it's own?

I'm using security/bruteforceblocker with success, it's easy to install and 
run and works with pf